Your Stamp Of Weird

Your stamp of weird are just little whims or facets that are just so you, bits that would just make me so Susan.  This concept, your stamp of weird, comes from a set of five personality pillars we are exploring from Zafira Rajan.  To learn more, you can hear Zafira on Amy Porterfield podcast, Episode 362: How To Write Emails That Actually Get Opened, with Zafira Rajin and check out the first blog post in this series, “The Value of Knowing Your Core Values”.

One of the easiest ways to identify your stamp of weird is to look back over what you used to like to do as a child or in your teenage years.  What did you think about, dream about, listen to, and watch? What were your interests? For example, I loved music growing up.  I sang and memorized song lyrics for hours, taught myself how to read music and begged for piano lessons until my mom signed me up.  In middle school, high school, and college, I was in band and yes, if you must know, I played tuba.  My stamp of weird. I am a low brass, band geek, through and through. Now as a grown up, I listen to music daily. I love going to listen to live music whenever I can and talking to other like-minded music lovers where ever I can find them.

If you are a visual person, another fun way to identify your stamp of weird, might include creating a Pinterest board and gathering pictures of things that interest you. Things you’ve thought I’d like to learn more about but I just don’t have time for or what will people think if they know I’m interested in that?! Just drop those items onto the board, no editing yourself.

Unlike last week’s core beliefs, which are characteristics that motivate and guide our decisions and are things that we stand for unapologectically, if some else’s stamp of weird is not the same as mine – that’s o.k. It’s simply means we have different interests in life, they aren’t deal breakers in our relationships. I like to think of the stamp of weird as the spice rack of life. The facets that make life interesting.  They are an opportunity to invite people into a conversation with you.

And if you are judging yourself or others for your whims and bits that just make you so you, I would challenge you to ask yourself why?  Why are you choosing to not share your own stamp of weird with the world? Why are you hiding? If you’ve always wanted to wear vintage clothing but never allowed yourself this pleasure because you are afraid of what other people will think, why? If you’ve always believed in angels but won’t even buy a book to study them, why?

What thoughts are keeping you from doing things that light you up? Remember other people get to have their own stamp of weird too, but it doesn’t have to be the same as ours and they also get to have thoughts about our stamps, but it shouldn’t keep you from enjoying what lights you up. So get out there and be YOU. I want to see more of who YOU are shine through.

Comment below and let me know what interests you!

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